Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-10
WUMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
GONE. TO HER REST.
4 Brief sketch Of the Life and Character
Of the Late Jane Nelson McAGan.

4 Brief sketch Of the Life and Character
Of the Late Jane Nelson McAdam.
During the summer. while the friends
we're scattered to mountain-side and
scashore. one Of the remarkable women
of New York passed away. This was
Mrs Jane Nelson McAdan, the mother
of our longtime co-worker. Miss JEAN
ME McAdam. As treasurer Of the
New York City League. Miss McAdam
has rendered faithful service to our
cause for fifteen years. A lady of
great personal beauty and grace OF
manner--hOw many times we have
looked at her with pride, as she stood
reading her reports, her whole appear
ance in dignity and refinement falsify-
ing the absurd prejudices against the
women who advocate equal rights.
During these years the summer home
of Miss McAdam was at YonkerS.
where dwelt her mother, passing gent
ly down the vale of years till she had
almost entered her ninety-seventh win
ter. Born at Belfast. Ireland, Septem-
Der 9. 1871, Jane Nelson came into be-
ing in the midst of the struggle for
Irish independence, which eliminated
in the outbreak of 1898. Her father,
Samuel Nelson, was distinguished
member of the Order of United
lrishmcn, the associate of Wolf
Tone and Robert Emmett. For
his part in ''inciting rebellion"
lie was cast into Newgate prison
with Emmett. Gordon, Russell, and
others, and was only liberated on
pledge to expatriate himself. He came
to this country to make a home for his
wife and children, but ere he could do
SO he died, broken down by the hard
ships of his imprisonment. His family
remained in Ireland, where Jane grew
to womanhcol and married George
McAdam. at a later period coming to
this country with her family, where,
by her own talents and efforts, she OBJ
tanned an honorable independence.
For many years she and her daughters
kept private school, at which were
educated the children of most of the
best people of the vicinity.
Born and reared amid the struggles
for independence in Ireland, Mrs. Nc
Adam loved liberty with intense de-
yotion. She took the deepest interest
In the anti-slavery struggle. Al
though the woman suffrage agitation
came after she had entered old age,
she followed every movement with
the keenest enthusiasm. She was
gifted with distinguished beauty. re-
tanning to her death wonderful deli
eacy of complexion. She was ripe
scholar. and possessed tenacious
memory. She astonished young
student only a few years ago by re-
citing to him ninety lines of Vir-
gil. She had charming geniality of
manner. and the readiness of wit and
quickness of repartee supposed to be-
long to her race. On the day before |
her death she recited the whole of the |
psalm. 1.-The Lord is my shepherd.
shall not want" first in the language |
of the Bible. and then in the metrical
version. Her last words before she
sank into the sleep in which she peace
fully passed away were ''rest, rest"
and few moments later, ''tO-mor-
row"
The closing of life so full of useful
ness and yet so ripe brings not the re-
greet that comes when one is cut off in |
the prime. The friends who stood
un"cr the trees. and among the flowers
of the home where she had dwelt for
SO many years. looking out over the
bright waters of the Hudson. felt that
the spirit. released from the burden of
years. was gazing on fairer visions
than these. and that the words '.fare-
well'' and 'all hail. blended between
the nearer and the further Shore
Lille Dere,eur Blake, in W0na0n's Jour-
nal.